Show Iron Ore in Its Ita Native r I State Found in Meteors I The first use of ot iron ore by man came from small deposits li St native iron ore found in meteors Only in meteors is iron found in its dative state writes Dale Cox in the Cleveland Cle Plain Dealer Admiral Peary on some of his expeditions ns iron Eskimos pounding native round out of meteoric deposits and ere pre implements fashioning tools and hunting ments out of it The only known liable deposit of native iron is in Greenland too far away from the industrial world to be of any value I L Lead Le seems to tt tt have been 1 erect ered er by Dy by m mari man as as a a- a byproduct ct ot of of his search for silver siler in much the same way that copper was discovered in his search for gold Lead rarely occurs in its native nathe state stat but is often found in conjunction with ith sil sil- silver silver sil- sil silver ver ores I Zinc a metal very similar to lead I and widely used in industry was w a s snot I Inot not discovered until long afterward I It has never been found in its native state and was not perfected perfect d for so long because of the difficulty in its I smelting Zinc ore in smelting has hasto hasto I Ito to be melted to a vapor or fume and then condensed Hence primitive 1 metal workers never came close to discovering zinc Brass an alloy of copper and zinc naturally did not exist in the ancient world although found in ina I Ia a few samples have been a few historic remains Such few i samples as have been found are be be- believed beI believed I ved to be pure accidents inas inas- inasmuch in inasmuch as- as j much as there was no general trace of knowledge in the ancient world I of how to smelt zinc or use it I I II |